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Max Pechstein
Don't Strangle the Newborn Freedom Through Disorder and Fratricide, Otherwise Your Children Will Starve1919

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Lithograph poster with hand-lettered German text surrounding a bold ink drawing of a standing infant gripping a large orange triangular flag

Max Pechstein, Werbedienst der deutschen Republik, Don't Strangle the Newborn Freedom Through Disorder and Fratricide, Otherwise Your Children Will Starve, 1919, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection, Beverly Hills, CA, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Max Pechstein
Germany, 1881-1955
Publisher
Werbedienst der deutschen Republik
Germany, 1918-1919
Title
Don't Strangle the Newborn Freedom Through Disorder and Fratricide, Otherwise Your Children Will Starve
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1919
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 39 1/4 × 26 5/8 in. (99.7 × 67.63 cm) Image: 38 × 25 3/4 in. (96.52 × 65.41 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection, Beverly Hills, CA
Accession Number
M.2003.115.45
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography
  • Kaplan, Rachel, and Erin Sullivan Maynes. Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.
Selected Exhibition History
  • Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany. October 29, 2022 - July 22, 2023
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Pechstein Hamburg / Toekendorf / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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